Mumbai Mirror report inspires TV show

Six months after Mirror broke the story of Mohammed Saeed, an autorickshaw driver who resorted to carrying his two-year-old kid in his lap while plying his vehicle after his wife suffered a paralytic attack, a TV show is in the works to showcase his plight. Titled Mere Papa, Hero Hiralal, the show is scheduled to go on air in the next few months and features Sarwar Ahuja in the lead with Riva Arora (seen in films Mom and Haseena Parkar) as his daughter.

The story has been moved to Lucknow with an auto driver named Hiralal Tiwari, who, driven by the love for his adopted daughter Gungun, is determined to overcome all obstacles to help her recover from a medical issue.

The show will air on Discovery Jeet. “It’s about an underdog’s victory. We were looking for a drama that celebrates the joys of winning in everyday life. The photograph that made it to the front page of Mumbai Mirror with the story of the auto driver and his child really stayed with us. He’s an everyday hero so that struck a chord too. We took that idea to the production house and they created the show around that image from the paper. In our case, we made it a single fatherdaughter story as we wanted to explore that bond,” a channel spokesperson said.